ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In honor of Labor Day earlier this week, we are diving into our blog archives to revisit a post on XQ Institute’s report High School & the Future of Work. Their report calls out a number of startling statistics, some we have called attention to in the past and others that are new. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Instructional Materials 31

Instructional Materials Policies Report Survey 31

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2015

State standard codes and definitions appear throughout students’ practice and are included in educator reports. The “Find Instructional Material” functionality recommends lessons and resources that are aligned to each state’s standards from Triumph Learning’s Coach curriculum.

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Instructional Materials Learning Elementary Report 40

Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world.

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Software Groups OER Industry 74

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

More than 6 million students in all 50 states use products offered by Curriculum Associates, which sells research-based print and online instructional materials, assessments, and data management tools, including its flagship tool, the adaptive assessment and instruction package, i-Ready.

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Adaptive Learning Company Instructional Materials Strategy 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 24, 2017

I shared with you before how much I love Kiddom as an easy tool for managing standards-based grading , and there’s a couple of new updates that you definitely need to know about if you’re spending too much time creating resources for differentiated instruction. These actionable reports are gorgeous, clean, and easy to read.

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Khan Academy Tools Differentiated Instruction Instructional Materials 49

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from. Surely a lot has changed!

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Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 147

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting dashboards should become more student-focused. education system. .

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 144

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. For supporting 1:1 environments : By creating cross-device palettes or dashboards, librarians ensure apps, instructional materials and all digital assets are available at learners’ fingertips across devices.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

There is a growing need to report on student activity more holistically. From California to Connecticut , legislation is being written and revised to specifically tie attendance to learners’ documented interaction with instructional material. Enter interoperability. The importance of this access cannot be overstated.

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Data LMS EdTech Accessibility 214

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2020

According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts. It’s definitely sparked something in her.

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Elementary Analysis Guidelines Instructional Materials 161

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

Unsurprisingly, the way in which an online class is designed can significantly impact how learners engage with and process the instructional material. In addition to the instructional benefits, some educators report that UDL helps better connect them to their students. Online Class Design.

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UDL Online Learning Accessibility Guidelines 64

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

According to a report written with support of major search engines like Google, Creative Commons estimates that the number of CC-licensed works available online is over 1 billion (Creative Commons, 2015). In no instance did a majority of students or teachers report that the OER were of inferior quality.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46